Celine Dion hid illness for 17 years before making it public

Before disclosing her battle with stiff person syndrome to the public, Canadian singer Celine Dion revealed that she had been hiding it for 17 years.

Dion disclosed that she was managing her late husband Rene Angelil’s cancer fight in secret while also taking care of their children.

The 56-year-old singer said that she has been having symptoms since 2008. She initially disclosed her diagnosis in 2022

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“We did not know what was going on [with me]. I did not take the time… I should have stopped, took the time to figure it out,” she said.

“And like it wasn’t enough, my husband as well is fighting for his own life.

“I had to raise my kids, I had to hide, I had to try to be a hero – while feeling my body leaving me,’ she continued. ‘[I was] holding on to my own dreams.”

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The ‘Think Twice’ crooner explained that she eventually opened up about her illness because keeping it from “the people who got her to where she was” was a huge “burden”.

Celine Dion recently stated that her Stiff Person Syndrome feels like she’s “being strangled”.

She added that that she often suffers from cramps and even had broken some